| Show A DODGER WHO IS NOT EVEN ARTFUL A FEW days ago we replied to a statement in the editorial columns of the salt lake yem that since the passage of the emonds law at a public assemblage of the saints in a little town a little way out la in the country president taylor declared that theirs was the only legal government on earth and that he also asserted that the pure women who came here from the east as teachers were all of bad character we denied both assertions and challenged the tribune to give the name of the little town with other particulars and the name of the persons who heard the alleged declarations we stated then and we repeat the statement now that the assertions were not mere mistakes but LIES fabricated by the tribune for malicious and deceptive pu in I 1 n an abortive abor tiye ye attempt to meet this charge and pretend iosub to substantiate its falsehoods the tribune brazenly calls our dental denial bluff and with its accustomed logic quotes as a sufficient answer to the ranting of the NEWS 11 a couple of paragraphs from a pamphlet containing copies of the correspondence between john taylor and schuyler colfax which the tribune says took place in 1870 and it atrium triumphantly p bantly points to the fact that this pamphlet was waa published by the NEWS Publish publishing lug company theres argument for you I 1 john taylor since the passage of the edmunds law said so and so in a public assembly and the proof that he did to is that he wrote a letter to schuyler So huyler colfax the edmunds act was not passed in 1882 and the letter cited was written in 1870 what could be more convincing vin cing the two paragraphs quoted contain no statement that theirs the mor mons mono 11 to is the only legal government on earth nor anything like it and no reference whatever to the pure women who come here as teachers and yet they are cited as a sufficient answer to our challenge to produce the name odthe of the little town where those alleged declarations were made and the names of the persons who heard them this is the best beet answer the tribune can make and is as good evidence as could le be desired that its statements were willfully false and it Is ie unable to meet the issue it stretches stretch out this thin effort to nearly a full column and after repeating our challenge bays the best beat way to answer it all will be to go back and answer it with a tract which the NEWS sells out of its office it then relates the fact of the correspondence and quotes the two paragraphs from that old utah history to prove that john taylor made a certain declaration since 1882 it quotes from a letter written in 1870 to prove that he be said something in a public assembly in a little town to in the country it points to this letter to prove that he abused pure women teachers teacher it still refers to that old letter which contains not a syllable about those teachers to clinch this kind of proof that john taylor did so and so it declares that a certain tract was published by the NEWS company and this Is bithe the best way to answer a for the name of the little town where the public declaration was made since 1882 and the names of the persons who heard it logic again with a vengeance we noticed these two wilful lies of the simply that its scribes might not say with any appearance of truth that its statements bad never been denied and therefore they must be accepted as facts fact for one of its common tricks is to say the mormons cormons admit l t so and so when the mormons cormons admit 9 9 nothing of the kind but simply let the lies of the tribune alone as unworthy of notice now if the tribune can offer any evidence that president taylor since the passage of the edmunds act made the public declarations named in aca a little town or a big town let it be produced if not it will be of no use to dodge behind an old tract or an old letter even if either contains anything like the alleged declarations and when the tract or the letter contains nothing resembling such declarations quotations only serve to show still further the mendacity of the dodger who demonstrates that heis he is not even artful but simply idiotic |
